Improvement in counting-registers



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ALEXANDER P. ATKINSON, OF VERMONT, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COUNTiNG-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,609, dated November 7, 1871,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER P. ATKINSON, of Vermont, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Itegistering-h/Iaehines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved registering device, showing the parts in position for use. Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, S, 9, and 10 are detail views of the operating-parts, showing their construction; and Fi 11 is a vertical central section 011 lines a 00 a a of the detail views.

Corresponding letters refer to corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to register-in g-machines, it being designed to be attached to machines or places where it is desirable to register or tally the number of bushels or other measures of grain which pass a given point; and it consists in a novel construction, combination, and arrangement of some of the parts of which it is composed, as will be more fully explained hereinafter.

In constructing registers of this character I use a frame, 0, of any suitable form of construction, for supporting a shaft which passes through it and carries upon one of its ends a crank, B for communicating the movement of the machine to which it is attached to the registering-disks. Upon that portion of the shaft which carries the registering-disks which is nearest to the crank B" there is placed a disk, 0 which has upon one of its faces a projecting tubular hub, and upon its opposite face a projection such as is shown in Fig. 2). The projecting hub of this disk passes through the case and receives and carries the crank B while a portion of the disk is cut away, as shown in Fig. 2, to permit it to carry a dog and spring, the dog being so arranged as to engage pins inserted in the face of the disk 0 as shown in Fig. 1. The disk is made of wood or of metal, having in one of its faces the pins above referred to, its opposite face being smooth, except that there is a recess which passes through the disk and carries within it a dog and spring, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.- The length of the outer or horizontal portion of this dog is greater than the thickness of the disk in which it is placed, in order that it may project outward toward the disk G and come in contact with the projections upon its inner surface when the disk 0 has made one revolution, and press it (the dog) inward and cause its opposite end to enter a hole in the face of the disk O and cause it to be turned one-tenth of a revolution, this operation being repeated each time that disk 0 performs a revolution, the disk 0 being provided with ten holes for the reception of the d0 The next of the series of disks (l is made fast upon the shaft, its outer surface being smooth, while its inner face is grooved and the disk is provided with a series of ten holes, as stated, for the reception of the dog carried by disk 0 In one of the holes in disk 6 there is placed a sliding pin, which is operated by the dog of disk 0 when it is to be pushed into the disk 0* for the purpose of turning it, the pin being pressed back by the action of a spring, as shown in Fi 6. The last of the series of disks shown is marked G and is provided with a series of apertures for the reception of the pin of 0 This disk is free to turn upon its shaft, its inner side being provided with a series of pins upon which a spring bears to prevent the disk from turning when the pin is withdrawn from the apertures in its face. Inside of the disk 0 there is placed a collar, 0 which is keyed or otherwise fastened to the shaft, its inner face being provided with a series of pins, upon. which a spring rests, as shown in Fig. 4, to prevent it from turning, except when moved by the disk O Upon the peripheries of the disks O 0, and 0 there are placed series of figures ranging from U to 9, which, when the machine is in operation, indicate the number of bushels or other measures of grain that have passed through it. Upon the periphery of the oscillating disk 0 is the figure so arranged that it will be visible and opposite to one of the figures on disk 0 in the position of the crank B, shown in full lines in Fig. 1, but becomes hidden on turning the crank into the position indicated by dotted lines.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The registering mechanism herein described, consisting of a frame, 0, and a series of disks, O (l O" C*-the disk G being provided with a pawl or dog in its periphery for giving motion to this specification in the presence of two subto the remaining ones of the series-springs D scribing Witnesses.

D D flange or disk 0 and a dog which passes ALEXANDER P. ATKINSON. through the disk 0 the parts being constructed and arranged substantially as and for the pur- W'itnesses:

pose set forth. Enw. HAMER,

In testimony whereofl have signed my name H. H. HAMER. (42) 

